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by qntty 10y ago
It would probably be fair to call Henry “aimless.” After he graduated from Harvard, he moved back in with his parents, a boomerang kid straight out of a trend piece about the travails of young adults. Despite graduating into a recession,
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by qntty 10y ago
Can I ask where you went? I've always been fascinated with Black Mountain College.
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by qntty 10y ago
These sort of discussions always bother me, for a few reasons 1. There's no such thing as a single reason for doing anything. Humans are too complex for that. So to frame this as a question of "she did it because of race" vs
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by qntty 10y ago
Do you have an opinion on math-circle inspired schools like Proof School[1]? To me it seems obvious that this is the direction that math education should go in for kids who are passionate about math. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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http://www.theonion.com/article/exhausted-noam-chomsky-just-...
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by qntty 10y ago
Stallman was right
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by qntty 10y ago
A nice (if long-winded) reminder that things aren't black and white. But what is a person supposed to do with a list of complex, nuanced facts? That's why we talk about things, right? To make sense of them? Isn't that's
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I wonder if you can find a single person who holds the position that you're arguing against.
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This is the blog post that (I believe) coined the term: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...
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by qntty 10y ago
Self-control is hard, and at the end of the day, most people don't care whether they've made themselves into a stronger person in the course of doing their work. They just care that they did their work. If you have goals in life,
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by qntty 10y ago
Acting annoyed can get you to a local maximum of helpfulness from others, but it will never get you very close to the global maximum. Moving toward the global maximum requires you to be sensitive to other people's state of mind and bei
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by qntty 10y ago
You're right, polls showed that Sanders would do better than Clinton against Trump. The Democratic elite doesn't want Sanders because he doesn't represent their interests. BTW, you should know that, at this point, the electio
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by qntty 10y ago
Wow, I initially agreed with sama, but this makes me realize how much of a hypocrite I am.
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You only need to look at Reagan or Bush 2 to see how long it takes to repair the damage of a very bad President. This sounds plausible in theory, but in reality it's totally reckless. We would be dealing with the consequences for decad
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by qntty 10y ago
Could you say what it would mean to have an idea of right and wrong that isn't an opinion? What would it be if not an opinion?
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by qntty 10y ago
The difference is that people who support Trump can't be punished like this precisely because there are so many of them. This kind of social shunning doesn't make sense when 43% of the population would need to be shunned. Shunni
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by qntty 10y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but I googled the quote because it didn't sound like Lao Tzu to me. It's a nice quote, but it sounds vaguely Buddhist. It looks like it was written in a Taoist book called the Hua Hu Ching several hundred yea
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by qntty 10y ago
This is why Trump is popular. He's the opiate of people who are left behind. People mock them for supporting Trump, but few people offer appealing alternatives.
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Most experts haven't, you don't need to do anything impressive to have expertise.
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by qntty 10y ago
protesting doesn't work very well unless there's some threat to the normal order of things
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by qntty 10y ago
Yeah, there are definitely a lot of similarities between humans and other animals in that respect, but that's the problem. It should worry us that humans, an animal capable of resolving conflicts in many different ways, chooses vio
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by qntty 10y ago
I remember reading something by John Searle about how the means that people have of expressing themselves will determine what they express. If you don't give people good alternative ways of expressing anger, what can you expect them to
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by qntty 10y ago
There's a good case to be made that a significant factor is the association of masculinity with violence in American culture, which explains why men commit significantly more violence than women (and also explains some of the success o
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by qntty 10y ago
Are you always listening to music when you wear headphones? Or do you use noise-cancelling headphones only for their noise-cancelling, to create silence?
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by qntty 10y ago
can't tell if this is satire or not
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definitely not, just a special color
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iphones are expensive for most people
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Google phones are updated by Google, the same way Apple phones are updated by Apple.
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by qntty 10y ago
you've created an awfully scary world for yourself

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